| Giggs_11 said: - If I buy a a Wii U and play it for 5 years, it'll cost me € 300; - If I buy a PS4 or X1 for € 300 and play it for 5 years I'll pay during that period something like € 650. You pay for online and although I believe it's not mandatory, about 90%-100% will pay for it. Even the casuals which only play FIFA or CoD will have to. To close it up, people who believe WiiU costs also as much as PS4/X1 are wrong. Yes you get stronger hardware but you also end up spending a lot more. |
Add the price of an external harddrive if you want to download any significant amount of DLC or other downloadable content...
and well, you get a machine even worse specced than the XB1...
But you gain access to the Nintendo titles! yay!
As for the number of people paying for PS+/Live Gold... well Sony has about 7 million users I believe (maybe less) and this includes PS3/4 as well as Vita and maybe even some PSP users! so this is far below 50%.
Yes, stronger hardware cost more, the online services charging for online play is a bit arbitrary, especially for games that rely on p2p to run their matches :-/ and those who have dedicated servers .. those servers are not necessarily handled by the platform owners... what can I say? well... I don't do MP, so let some other people argue about the merits of this charging.
